yes certainly i mean we got actually the head of the treasury steve muchin and also one of the biggest trait in visors is they're both saying that they do not agree with the president on this measure on the other side we have the hard liner peter in the vero saying that he considers this move from u.s. president to donald trump a brilliant so obviously quite different opinions on that and besides that makes it cold now this weekend countermeasures from china actually will go into effect so we certainly opened up a couple of new fronts and then also people on wall street are asking what does it all mean for possible kateri of the european union so at this point everything seems to be possible but as we've seen the shop reaction on wall street maybe u.s. president donald trump might reconsider and so that those terrorists mexico might be avoided at the end so the trade tangle getting even more complicated there korda for us in new york thank you. well the u.s. china trade war the end just mention that's intensifying new chinese counterterrorists on u.s. imports go into effect on saturday

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treasury secretary steve mnuchin refusing to release them.ays and means committee his next move could include issuing a subpoena. meanwhile, they've set a vote wednesday on whether to hold william barr in contempt. of congress for ignoring a subpoena it turn over the unredacted mueller report. justice department officials are waiting tomorrow to see if they can reach deal. and the white house trying to back track from the president's weekend tweet that robert mueller should not testify before congress. an official telling cnn the president was just expressing his opinion because the investigation is over and it is time to move on. lots to discuss. john dean. gentleman, good evening. so good to see all of you. president has been all over the place when it comes to mueller testifying. is he worried his claim of can exoneration is going to go up in flames? >> i think he knows his claim of exoneration is going to go up in flames if mueller or when mueller testifies. that's exactly what's going to happen. this effort to put out a boguses story and

any word from the treasury secretary, steve mnuchin tonight? >> not yet. it's something we're expecting any moment. the treasury department laying out in a letter to richard neal, a democrat, that they would respond in full whether or not they would be willing to turn olympic the president's tax returns, plus tax returns for eight of his business entities by today. but not to play spoiler here, wolf, the reality is there's no expectation the answer will be "yes." as you can see from the treasury department's letters to the two deadlines they've already missed, they have significant concerns, significant problems, they say on constitutional grounds with this request, and what this means, not unlike what we've seen with the mueller report and what we've seen on several requests to the house oversight committee, this is at some point going to wind up in court pem court. everything house democrats are doing on the investigative front, they're not getting compliance on the subpoenas, and that means contempt votes may be coming, more votes may be coming, but ever

that's the news, the treasury department, steve mnuchin saying the treasury department will not complydemand from the house ways and means committee to turn over six years of the president's tax returns. phillip, zerlina and susan, thanks. >>> we started to talk about this a minute ago. buzz the road to the white house go through the white house? indiana senator joe donnelly joins me next. (music throughout) what dit looks like georgeailure having a busy day. ♪ the beat goes on george has entresto, a heart failure medicine that helps his heart... so he can keep on doing what he loves. in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. it helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ♪ the beat goes on ask your do

it is something very important to steve mnuchin, the treasury secretary. mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader thought they might have a deal by end of yesterday. they didn't quite get there. one wonders whether they get there, connell. connell: one does. what a mess. melissa. melissa: here is to react strips coglianese, dale at this caller executive editor. this is such a mess. this is business show. let me ask you money questions about this. nancy pelosi said moments before she knew she was going over to talk about infrastructure, she said the president is involved in a cuffup right now, still perpetrating. she knew that would blow up the infrastructure meeting. why do you think the democrats would want to do that? that is spending. that is building. seems like it is one of their good issues. good for the economy, what do you think? >> nancy pelosi is try aging her problems. top among them are holding the caucus together. democrats are furious at donald trump. they want to impeach him from office. some percentage of our caucus does. she thought tod

could explain why trade representative robert lighthizer and treasury secretary steve mnuchin arriving fairly quickly to the white house. blake burman is there. i guess they will plan strategy there? reporter: i'm standing 2 or 300-yards away that the walk that treasury secretary steve mnuchin made over here to the west wing. i asked them on two different occasions the talks went. he looked at me. he smiled. he did not answer. you can believe that is probably the appropriate response at this point considering we believe they're going into the west wing to specifically talk to the president about exactly what just happened. we know that when those two met with liu he yesterday after the discussions came over here to the white house, talked with president trump. we believe that is what is going on right now. i can tell you, neil, as it stands, stood the a about 11:30 this morning when i inquired on it, there had been no scheduled call between president trump and president xi. could that change? absolutely. will that change? we don't know. if it does change, when might that call take plac

treasury secretary steve mnuchin refusing to hand over president trump's tax returns, insisting that the request put, quote, lacks a legitimate legislative purpose. mnuchin's refusal sets the stage for a potentially lengthy legal battle. >> today members of the house judiciary are set to meet with justice department officials who have refused to turn over the full unredacted mueller report if they cannot reach an agreement democrats are planning to vote tomorrow to hold attorney general william barr in contempt. former white house counsel don mcgahn could also face a contempt citation if he doesn't turn over documents related to the mueller investigation by 10:00 this morning. so contempt on mcgahn, contempt on barr, it could all happen this week. joining us now is maggie haberman, cnn political analyst. maggie, thanks for being with us. do you get the sense that the administration cares about being held in contempt if that's a stick being held up by congress, is it one that the administration is afraid of? >> not particularly. i mean, i think you have to remember that unless you use

let's start with treasury secretary steve mnuchkin rejecting a request from house democrats. this is the third time he's failed to meet a congressional deadline to hand in documents raising stakes for a legal battle between congress and the administration. another legal battle. in a letter to house ways and means chairman, mnuchkin said the committee's request lacks a legislative purpose. citing guidance from the justice department, mnuchkin went on to say, out of respect for the deadlines previously set by the committee and consistent with our commitment to a prompt response i'm informing you now that the department may not lawfully fulfill the committee's request. he added the doj would publish a legal opinion on the issue soon. the chairman respond in a statement saying he would consult with counsel and determine the appropriate response. >>> the justice department appears to be making another counter offer to the house judiciary committee after refusing to turn over another report. will bill barr be held in condemocratic. jerrold nadler said his staff will meet with justi

speaking of house investigations lawmakers using a budget hearing to grill treasury secretary steve mnuchin on the president's tax returns. hillary vaughn is on capitol hill with a whole lot more. hillary? reporter: dagen, treasury secretary steve mnuchin telling the house financial services committee today that it is unlawful for him to hand over the president's tax returns saying that he would only do it if the courts tell him to. mnuchin saying under oath that he has had no discussions with the president or anyone in the white house about handing over these tax documents. mnuchin telling the committee, he hasn't even looked at the returns himself. >> do you know what he is hiding? he doesn't want anybody to see them -- >> i don't think he is hiding anything. >> okay. so you don't know? >> i don't know anything about his tax returns. >> why haven't you complied with, with chairman neal request? >> i think that would be unlawful. reporter: there was a lot of discussion about the draft irs memo has been reported earlier today, written by a member of the irs, basically says the agency has to

we are learning that the treasury secretary steve mnuchin's refusal to turn over the president's tax returns goes against irs regulation, previously unknown irs legal memo, draft document obtained by "the washington post" says the disclosure of returns is mandatory unless the president asserts executive privilege which he hasn't done. we don't know who wrote it but the agency said it was prepared last fall and we've heard from one legal expert after another that the law is clear, congress is entitled to the president's returns. so this looks like another example of this administration running roughshod over the law in an effort to hide, well, we don't really know what and then there are the latest subpoenas tonight from the house judiciary committee for two former house -- white house officials. there's hope hicks, the trump whisperer who started working for the president or trump in the early days of his campaign and became one of the closest, most trusted white house aides. one who admitted to congress that she told white lies for her boss. so, yeah, the committee is going to have

alan, how is treasury secretary steve mnuchin reacting to this after he said, what was it, two weeksirs are on the same page? >> that's right. and he had a hearing this morning with the house financial services committee and he was asked about it multiple times, probably about half the hearing was about that memo and about the president's taxes. and he had a few things to say. one, he emphasized that it was a draft memo. it wasn't final. he also made the point that he said that it did not undercut his argument that there needs to be a legitimate legislative purpose for the tax returns to be released. and interestingly, he tried to cast doubt on the authenticity of the memo, saying he wasn't sure he wrote it, they were going to do an investigation, and this was not some sort of smoking gun that undercut what he said -- >> but in your opinion, does it change mnuchin's refusal to hand over those taxes? >> it doesn't sound like it at all. he's steadfast that he does not want to see the irs weaponized by democrats, as he likes to say. but he did say that they'll take into consideration, t

jeffrey toobin, as you heard, the secretary of the treasury, steve mnuchin, says they can't lawfully over the president's tax returns because in the words of the treasury department, there's no legitimate legislative purpose. do you believe that will hold up in court? >> i don't, but i think a court fight will accomplish what the trump administration has been trying to do in all of this defiance, which is kick the can down the road. it will take months to resolve this, but you know, sometimes laws are complicated. but the laws about disclosures of tax returns are not complicated. when the house ways and means committee says we want tax returns, the secretary of the treasury shall. that's the word in the law, shall turn them over. it's really not complicated, and i think the courts will see it that way eventually. >> rebecca buck, the chairman of the ways and means committee, chairman neal, has been cautious so far. how soon do you >> well, wolf, i think cautious is the keyword there. and we saw the statement from neal today saying he's going to consult with counsel on this but he's g

with the president, we also don't know the chinese interlocker, how he -- the secretary of the treasury steve mnuchin said they were constructive, in diplomatic speak with k mecan -- can mean about anything. >> our friends at cnbc are talking about the top places affected by tariffs all but two, washington and oregon, voted for mr. trump in the last election. and the white house advisers say that ckoconfronting china plays well in the rust belt states that lifted mr. trump to victory in 2016 and that he is counting on again in the 2020 election. they say any hit to the economy caused by the tariffs will be short-lived and unlikely to disrupt the growth of states including pennsylvania, speci c michigan, and more have enjoy friday recent years. what's the word from inside the white house? do they see this as a political winner? based on my conversations, they know that this is risky. >> the one thing president trump doesn't like to be seen as is someone who backs down. he will always rise to the fight. he always likes the challenge. so anything that they think smacks of weakness here at the wh

the treasury secretary, steve mnuchin denying a lawful request by the house ways and means chairman richard neal for the president's returns after missing two deadlines, two, which is no surprise. the president throughout the campaign first two years of his term has refused to release his taxes, even though that has been the norm going all the way back to president nixon. but this is just another page, right out of the trump playbook and there's more, another deadline defied by this administration, the attorney general ignoring the deadline this morning to turn over an unredacted version of the mueller report to congress. now the house judiciary chairman jerry nadler has set a wednesday vote to hold the a.g., the attorney general of the united states, in contempt. committee staff and doj officials meeting tomorrow in a last ditch attempt to avoid the contempt vote. where are we heading? where are we going? when is all of this going to end? all this is happening as a battle rages over robert mueller and whether he'll ever get the chance to publicly testify about his investigation. well tonig

treasury secretary steve minucci described as constructive but there was no sign of a deal during talks to ease trade friction between the world's 2 biggest economies china's trade representative who hate shook hands with nugent before leaving it's unclear when talks will continue despite a late day rally on friday built on eventual trade deal hopes markets still saw one of the worst weeks the sear a new draft of tariffs on chinese goods came into effect just hours before the trade negotiations met. before this latest escalation in the trade conflict lobster exporters in the north east have already seen hits to their business china is threatening further retaliation but hasn't yet said what it will do one option it has would be to further raise tariffs on u.s. imports including those on lobsters. a lobster boat returns to the harbor at kennebunkport maine this time of year should see the local lobster industry cloying in profits instead businesses here are feeling the pinch my business is down 60 percent and that 60 percent is basically made up 100 percent of chinese exports that we do

. >>> treasury secretary steve mnuchin let secretary does congress know that is unlikely to release tax returns as democrats subpoenaed the irs for six years of the president's personal and business returns. secretary mnuchin one in front of a secretary subcommittee to answer questions about that and other issues before the

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is it fair to say treasury secretary steve mnuchin was not aware of the memo and didn't know about this policy? >> that is what the treasury department told us in a statement, that mnuchin never reviewed the memo. we'll try to get to the bottom of that. mnuchin is testifying on the hill today, and i am very confident that lawmakers will try to press him and ask that very question that you just posed, which is a good one. >> so is this, jeff, binding in any way? is this an opinion written by a lawyer, or is this an irs policy that will have implications for, say, treasury secretary mnuchin responding to a subpoena from a congressional committee to get these tax returns out? >> no. mnuchin is not bound by this decision or this memo at all. he is free to make his own opinion, and he canov overrule e judgment of subordinates at the irs. some have conferred with his decision, not to give the tax returns. the document we obtained is certain to be used by democrats in their lawsuit in federal court, seeking to compel the release of trump's tax returns to them. >> hey, jake sherman, how worried

hisor said china had reneged on earlier commitments something he called unacceptable the treasury secretary steve nugent said new information had emerged over the weekend and that the entire u.s. trade team had urged trump to apply the new tariffs if a deal is not reached by friday. and our financial correspondent conrad boos and joins us now from frankfurt conrad speaking of trade germany's leader and america was in hamburg yesterday to make a case for free trade maybe in response to some what's going on there between us and china what he tell us. make of gave her statement at the famous hamburg port one of germany's doles to the way the perfect spot to illustrate how important international trade is for germany merkel said we need to have a global conversation about how we can foster a fair and balanced trade conditions and this came one day ahead of today's visit of my pump aoe in berlin the u.s. secretary of state and of course medical he'll once to appeal to the americans she wants to remind them that you know the uni lateral approach is not the way to go that the americans should together w

the us treasury secretary steve mnuchin and the trade secretary robert lighthizer flew out of beijinger what were described as productive talks. earlier i spoke with a correspondent in beijing who is an economic advisor to the chinese government, andi advisor to the chinese government, and i asked him how the talks had been progressing. is very uncertain, there were only 2a hours of time actually spent in beijing, but there we re actually spent in beijing, but there were a number of sticking points. the question really is not whether there is going to be a deal at this point, but when they pull the court on this. a lot of people believe that donald trump will be looking at this as a political card, as he battles on towards his re—election campaign. there are reports that president trump is making concessions, particularly on cyber theft, and the chinese are also making concessions in terms of opening the banking system. can you confirm this? well, these are discussions that have been held. the issue is, as always, when you make a deal, there is always somebody unhappy. there has to be

now we want to get to washington, d.c., where treasury secretary steve mnuchin is sitting before theappropriations subcommittee. bloomberg's chief washington correspondent kevin cirilli is on the hill now. let's get to you for a moment. one to ask you what we might hear from the treasury secretary today. kevin: headlines already coming out at the senate subcommittee hearing. the first, secretary mnuchin say and he is going to be meeting in beijing to continue trade talks within the near future, not putting a timetable on it. this comes as president xi jinping and president trump are set to come face-to-face in japan at the g20. it also comes off of headlines crossing the bloomberg terminal on the president reportedly backing off of auto import tariffs. the second big headline no shocker here. ticket terry mnuchin also saying -- secretary mnuchin also saying this will head to the judicial branch of government to settle whether or not president trump should release his tax returns. that has been a common thread from democrats, including senior ranking democrat chris coons of delaware.

treasury secretary steve newton at the negotiation teams. the u.s. is concerned about a balloon in trade deficit and accuses china of blocking access to its markets it is not clear when the two parties will meet again trying to twitter despite worries about a looming trade war the income from levies on chinese goods will be used to prop up ending sectors of the economy he promised. from d.w. business correspondent. and washington. welcome both sides are you oliver today's talks ended not long after they began what happened. well those were really brief talks in fact that's right it did not come as a surprise though if you take into consideration that the talks were actually stalled a week ago already in negotiators were not very optimistic when they went into the talks this morning they then went on to the wide halls including the secretary of treasury the new show and to discuss the outcome with u.s. president donald trump who by the way makes a very content impression that he's been tweeting all morning long he says essentially that terrorism good

also on capitol hill today, treasury secretary steve mnuchin is set to face tough questions at a houses morning. those questions, of course, about why the irs refuses to hand over president trump's tax returns to congress. this as "the washington post" has uncovered a confidential irs memo that states tax returns must be given to the tax writing chair in the house unless the president invokes executive privilege. let's begin with cnn's lauren fox live on capitol hill. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, in just a couple hours, house dem

subpoenas that to nearly ten current and former trump officials among them the secretary of the treasury steve mnuchin is still refusing to release six years of the president's tax returns to the house ways and means committee and has until friday to reply. today mnuchin was asked about that deadline. >> how do you plan to respond to chairman? >> we haven't had an official response yet. we will compile with the timing of it, i think you can pretty much guess how we're going to but i haven't made a decision. the democrats are trying weaponize it. >> mnuchin had not spoken to the president or white house about how to handle the demand for records and we're learning leaders in the house are taking their time about making any more serious movers against this white house. they are holding off any kind of a dramatic floor vote to hold the attorney general or any other big name senior officials in contempt with that as our predicate, time for the lead off discussion. robert costa for "the washington post" moderator of washington week on pbs and carol for "the washington post" and jonathan lamarre and

not too long ago, the secretary of the treasury steve mnuchin and larry kudlow were saying that a deallose, they were getting towards the final lap. there was a big setback a week ago when china pulled back on some of its commitments within the draft agreement, nearly 150 page draft agreement they've been working on. that, of course, was met with a lot of dissatisfaction by ustr, trade representative robert wright hauser, and the rest of the team. that because the president to increase tariffs and the talks ended today without a deal. likely to continue on talks, but at the same time, likely to have those tariffs continue, which means a longer trade war. >> here's number four and number five tweets today. over the course of the past few days, china has held constructive conversations on the status of trade relationship between both countries, the relationship between president xi and myself. in the meantime, the united states has imposed tariffs on china which may or may not be removed depending on what happens with respect to future negotiations. so how does this play and where does t

now treasury secretary steve manu chen said he needed more time with the am and he said the treasury department needs to consider whether it is constitutional to released tax returns of individual taxpayers. >> the man accused of killing a young woman is scheduled to appear in court and charged with stabbing and killing her and injuring her sister at the station last july. the judge in the case is considering whether he is competent to stand trial. >>> also today, members of oakland's asian pacific islander will talk. they showed us a lunar new year card they say is an example. they say it is offensive that firefighters dressed up in asian clothing and bamboo hats and acted out racist stereotypes and they want the county to look into harassment and workplace hostility includat the department's dispatch center. >>> investigators for the chp and east bay are looking for witnesses that turned into a shooting where one man was hurt. the collision occurred saturday on the overpass above interstate 80. police say both people involved in the crash continued on the freeway driving recklessly

the latest blow coming, like you said, from treasury secretary steve mnuchin. the trump administration raising a new roadblock in house democrats' efforts to investigate the president. treasury secretary mnuchin refusing to hand over president trump's personal and business tax returns to the house ways and means committee. in a letter to the chairman, mnuchin saying he determined that the committee's request lacks a legitimate legislative purpose. the chairman saying the committee will consult with counsel and determine their response. the tax return battle could make its way to the supreme court, as the trump administration's contempt for congress becomes more apparent. house judiciary chair jerry nadler considering contempt of congress for attorney general william barr, scheduling a vote for tomorrow after barr declined to provide the full, unredacted mueller report by monday. justice department officials will try to diffuse the situation in a meeting with committee staff today. nadler says the plans to consider holding attorney general barr accountable for hi

we await the letter or response from treasury secretary steve mnuchin. trump says he will not release tax returns while he is unaudit. as a matter of routine dating back to water beat, at least the watergate era the vice president and president are routinely audited by the irs. we'll await the final response. ashley: 43 minutes and counting. blake, thank you very much. melissa: michael cohen, president trump's former attorney is beginning a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to charges of lying to congress among other things. cohen speaking to the press as he departed his new york city apartment saying quote, there still remains much to be told. i look forward to the day that i can share the truth. i don't know, i feel like he has been gabbing, we'll see what he has to say or not. responsible for the economy. 2020 democrat cory booker calling out president trump for craking credit for the economic boom he says started unformer president obama. trump's economic advisor is firing back. >>> controversy at the kentucky derby. the original winne

tonight the treasury secretary steve mnuchin rejected a congressional subpoena that demanded that he do so by the close of business today. house ways and means chairman richie neil first asked for six years of the president's tax returns back in april, citing federal law that requires the irs to give the returns of any individual to the chairman of that committee. neil cited his authority under section 6103 of the federal tax code. that section of the law mandates that, quote, upon written request from the chairman of the committee on ways and means of the house of representatives, the secretary of the treasury, quote, shall furnish such committee with return or return information. the administration twice refused to meet the committee's voluntarily deadline to comply with the law, leading chairman neil to issue a subpoena last week to force the release of those returns. with less than an hour to go before neil's 5:00 p.m. deadly, secretary steve mnuchin sent this one-page response to the chairman. quote, the department of the treasury has consulted with the department of justice con

treasury secretary steve mnuchkin this week said there are no plans for u.s.et to talk about a deal let alone sign >> is there >> is there a way to force china to change its ways without the u.s. having to shoulder a little bit of economic pain? >> it looks like we're at an impasse right now. what china wants for a deal is for the u.s. to remove tariffs. what the u.s. wants, they want to keep those tariffs in place as a measure to make sure if they do sign a deal with china the rules are not broken. what the u.s. wants is more protection in terms of intellectual property for u.s. they want to they want to stop forced tech but transfers. but it looks like neither side really wants to give in here. >> all right. thank you so much. >>> trash talk, what to distill from president trump's twitter outburst at rex tillerson. that's interesting. we'll talk about that next. boutt one-millionth order. boutt millionth order. ♪ there goes our first big order. ♪ 44, 45, 46... how many of these did they order? ooh, that's hot. ♪ you know, we could sell these. nah. ♪ we don't

treasury secretary steve mnuchin saying on his way out they will be back in less than 15 minutes from now to continue negotiations. mcconnell saying that they are anxious to reach a deal. >> very uncouraging meat -- encouraging meeting in the speakers office. we met for two hours. our hope is to make a deal before the day's over. reporter: minority leader chuck schumer saying they still have details to work out. part of those details include domestic spending how much to spend and where. schumer says raising the debt limit will be a part of this package that they are negotiating. the big question from both republicans and democrats, will the president sign what congress puts on his desk. >> trust but verify. we'll have to wait and see. obviously we need the president to publicly sign off whatever we need to agree to. i think they realize, republican leadership and the white house that when mitch mcconnell, sorry, when president trump shut down the government and our republican friends went along with that it didn't serve them very well. reporter: mnuchin and mulvaney are back with the

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also yesterday treasury sector steve mnuchkin said the administration is close to an agreement with mexico and canada to roll back trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum. those were also imposed on national security grounds and faced heavy bipartisan opposition as well. >>> joining us from washington senior writer at roll call. neil, good to talk to you this morning. let's talk iran first. the trump administration is contending there are credible threats. however lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have not been informed as to what these threats are. we heard from lindsey graham a little bit earlier talking about the fact they could get behind the plan for iran but they don't know what they would be fighting here. so what is the intention here? why is the trump administration leaving so many lawmakers in the dark? >> i don't know yet why they are leaving lawmakers in the dark, and i think i would not want to be one of the members of the so-called gang of eight right now. those are the leaders of the intelligence committees in the house and senate as well as the party leaders in both chambe

reporter: that is obviously treasury secretary steve mnuchin who is talking about going to china.e says he will go at the appropriate time this morning christa friedland the foreign affairs minister said they are working on trade issues. china needs to play by the ruse, talking about china trade going back and forth and now is the right time to take them is wrons intellectual property. it's wrong to take the position that well, we should have free to do business in your country but you can't come to our country and do business. now it has got to change. reporter: and the u.s. making plans now to put everything basically, china imports into the united states under a 25% tariff. there's a june 17th public hearing about the items on that list, the $300 billion which is what's left that china imports into the united states. after that hearing, after the report is done, the president could put everything untariffs. back to you. charles: edward, thank you very much. meantime stocks are edging higher. clear the session could go either way. we have trade tensions, coupled with signs of cl

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treasury secretary steve mnuchin is testifying on capitol hill. he says that he is hopeful for a trade deal in confident. not confident with a trade deal in china. the treasury secretary says he will go to china for the next round of talks. no plans have been made as of yet. he will go with congressional support, listen. >> they have got to play by the rules like everybody else. we admitted, helped at mitt china to the wto. it wouldn't have gotten in without a support on december 11th, turn. on december 12th, our chinese friends started cheating. no one stood up to them. reporter: the big push today from the administration, not china but the usmca. here on capitol hill u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer met with canada's top negotiator today chris -- chrystia freeland. >> we talked about the ratification process for the new nafta, discussed situation in both of our countries and paths forward. reporter: free land said in the past canada would not ratify the usmca in canada if the steel and aluminum tariffs are in place. congressional suppo

in a how ways and means committee richard neal, treasury secretary steve mnuchin said of the request, quote, it lacks a legitimate legislative purpose. also said the department is not authorized to disclose the requested returns. also tonight, there are new concerns about whether the president can stop special counsel robert mueller, seen earlier tonight leaving a restaurant in d.c. from testifying before congress. yesterday trump sent this message, quote, why would the democrats in congress now need robert mueller? are they looking for a redo because they hated seeing the strong no collusion conclusion? there was no crime and no obstruction. bob mueller should not testify. that appears to contradict what president trump and his attorney general said very recently. >> mr. president, should mueller testify? would you like to see him testify? >> i don't know. that's up to our attorney general, who i think has done a fantastic job. >> will you permit him to testify publicly to congress? >> i have no objection to bob mueller personally testifying. >> what about bob mueller? should he be a

treasury department and the irs to hand over the president's tax returns to congress, but treasury secretary stevechin has hinted that they will not comply. now the treasury secretary is set to testify before that house financial committee next wednesday. joining us now is the chair of that committee, congresswoman maxine waters. thank you so much for joining us. madam chairwoman, let me ask you. house speaker nancy pelosi has publicly said she does not think that impeachment is the right move right now, had a different take on it yesterday where she did seem to acknowledge that impeachment would provide the house with certain powers. listen to what she said. >> okay. >> we have to exhaust every other remedy on the way and, again, use the tools at our disposal, even if that means saying one possible use of this investigation might be impeachment, even though i don't want to go to that place, but if that's what protects us in court. >> do you feel as if the speaker is moving closer to your opinion, which is more or less impeachment now? >> i don't know, but i've always believed that if the informat

>>by years treasury secretary steve mnuchin says the new bills likely now will come out until 2028, but not stopping some people from getting a bit creative and that's a move that is pleasing tobin's family and your donovan reports. >>so this is the stamp say at the outline of her face and this is a good very good picture of her. >>polling, cops johnson is amused after she sees how supporters of her aunt harriet are rebelling against the us treasury buying a stamp on line to replace president andrew jackson's face with tubman. >>i think she should get all the recognition she can worthy of that the stamp sold out after treasury secretary steve told a congressional committee. >>that he won't follow through with the plan to change the $20 bill until at least 2026. 6 years later do you support harriet tubman being on the $20 bill i've made no decision as it relates to that why do you think president trump has decided against it for now. >>me because i think that because she was a woman. and because she was a black woman. that they think it's terrible have a black and with that the currency.

treasury department approves of. it's pretty clear. it's there in black and white and the fact the justice department is justifying a different stance under the drkz of attorney general barr and the fact steveecretary is taking a different stance is an indication of how far they have strayed from the rule of law and serving as protecters of donald trump. >> we've seen all of this stone wall flumg white house. i'm wondering if it's pushing some democrat des to impeach and say impeachment is the only option. yard the court ruled the president's accounting firm has to hand over the doxuments. does letting the process play out sound like a better strategy to you? >> i guess we could argue the fact we had a court ruling so quickly in one of these cases suggests that maybe the strategy can work over the next few months if in fact the courts do rule this expedishesly and allow the house investigation to proceed and there are traps involved in rush nothing to impeachment. you -- some cynical minds expect that by stone walling congress, he's almost daring them because he thinks it will mobilize his base and result in an exoneration by republican-controlled senate. there's good arguments on both side

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